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The soldiers and horses in the front compartment of Huang Chao's department personally led fifty horsemen to investigate, and soon brought back the news that there was an official army in front of Tingting Mountain. "Judging by their banners, they should have eight thousand men, all dressed in red robes, all armed with bows, each armed with guns and knives, and even three thousand cavalry!"

"Is it Xue Chong?" Meng Kai asked.

"Otherwise, it's the Li family." Ge Congzhou said, "No matter which one it is, we will soon be able to know the Dao." He inspected his troops, a thousand men on his left. One thousand came from the back compartment composed of hungry people, thieves, deserters, farmers, and traders, and compared with Lin Yan's front compartment, it was 108,000 miles behind. Lin Yan alone has fifty cavalry, and the left compartment adds up to only ten cavalry.

However, it is finally full of swords and guns, although it is not as good as Lin Yan's front compartment, but it is much better than Wang Xianzhi's troops.

"The deputy capital sent someone to report that a troop of soldiers and horses was also found in the direction of Jeju, about seven or eight thousand people, under the banner of the Cheonpyeong Army. Now there is another one, could it be that he is the town's soldiers and horses? "Meng Kai is the deputy general of Huangchao, and he came this time to be responsible for commanding the rear compartment.

Ge Congzhou is fearless, no matter which way he comes, he always has to fight in short quarters.

"In my opinion. Both of these roads should be the balance army. All the way is virtual, and the other is real. Since there is a lot of fanfare on the Jeju side. That must be false. Sneaking here must be the main force of the Tianping Army. Meng Sima, I don't think there is much to worry about, and he went to meet the battle from the back of Zhou Yuan's lead. ”

Meng Kai thought for a while: "Since General Tongmei is so courageous, then Ben Sima can't stop it." In that case, well, according to your wishes, the back of the back to face the battle. ”

Ge Congzhou led a thousand soldiers and horses in the back compartment to move forward quickly. Towards the official army, about two hours later, the two sides met in front of Xitingting Mountain in Qianfeng County. Ge Congzhou took the first step and seized the halfway slope of the next hill, condescending. Standing on a high place, looking into the distance, the flat ground in the distance billows smoke and dust, and dozens of flags flutter in the smoke.

With anticipation, Ge Congzhou's heart jumped faster and faster. Huang Chao joined the army, and he followed the army. For more than half a year, he has been fighting Caozhou. Fighting Puzhou, attacking Jeju, fighting bravely, and making meritorious contributions repeatedly, he was able to be promoted to the rear of the army. Now, this is a big battle that has never been fought before, with a thousand grass troops facing eight thousand officers and soldiers.

The closer the smoke and dust got, and looking far away, you can already see a huge Xue character embroidered on a large flag in the front.

Ge Cong turned his head to Meng Kai, who was a little pale, and said, "Meng Sima, line up to meet the enemy!" ”

Meng Kai nodded and gave the order to line up.

A thousand troops of farmers, salt dealers, robbers, deserters, captives, and traders were in a chaotic formation against the mountains.

They were small in number, not sufficiently trained, and had never fought a real tough battle, and were overwhelmed by the presence of such a heavy enemy. The only thing that can keep them from falling apart is the prestige of the main general Ge Congzhou, the friendship of the township, and the righteousness of the outlaw brothers, as well as the resentment of the upcoming official army. Moreover, Xue Chong and his Tianping Army on the other side are no strangers to them. For most of the past six months, the four states of the Tianping Army have broken through the three states, many of the troops of the Tianping Army have been defeated by them again and again, the states and counties of the Tianping Army have been broken by the teams, and the soldiers have been killed by them, and even the weapons they have now in their hands, as well as a small amount of armor, have been captured from the soldiers who died in the Tianping Army. Even in the ranks, there are many soldiers who were captured by the defeated soldiers of the Tianping Army.

When a person faced such a large army, they may have collapsed a long time ago, but when they stood behind the young commander, they became bolder. How to fight this battle and what the result is, in fact, except for Ge Congzhou and Meng Kai and others, they don't have the slightest idea.

Suddenly, fear slowly overpowered cohesion and confidence, and the grass army formation began to shake a little, letting out bursts of exclamations, and the Tianping Army in front of them was already close at hand.

The war drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Tianping Army slowly opened up on the plain in front of the mountain.

The armor was bright and shone brightly in the morning sun of late spring.

At the front were the infantry, pushing sharp shields, spear-wielding, and wearing red-lacquered iron armor. Then came the bands of archers and crossbowmen, dressed in long cloaks of light leather armor.

On either side of the backward point were neat cavalry, and the knights and horses were covered with cowhide armor.

As this force slowly approached and stepped forward, the armor and weapons on their bodies, as well as the rumbling footsteps and neat arrays, made many of the grass soldiers start to beat violently, their hands and feet weak, and their faces like white paper. The entire array of grass troops began to get restless.

"There are no cavalry in our team, damn the Tianping Army actually transferred so many cavalry this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight this time." Lin Yan rode on his horse and whispered worriedly. "We have very little iron armor, few leather armors, and even fewer shields. There aren't many archers either."

Marching Sima Mengkai was also the leader of the salt dealers in Yizhou at the beginning, and after Huang Chao raised his army, he quickly pulled this old brother on the road into the gang and held an important position. Although he was also panicked at this time, he also knew that the more he was at this time, as the main general of the center of the whole army, the more he could not show this worry on his face. "At the moment of the big war, don't say discouraged words!"

Xue Chong rode a high-headed horse, located under the Chinese army, looking at the sparse queue of grass thieves in front of him, he couldn't help but smile on his face: "There are more than a thousand grass thieves, but they can't help themselves, they block the car with their mantis arms, and they want to hit the stone with an egg, hahaha." Pass on the order of Ben Shuai, let the infantry move forward, and the cavalry will follow on both sides, Ben Shuai will destroy these grass thieves first today, and take him to sacrifice the flag! ”

The horn sounded, and the twelve big drums and twelve horns of the Tang Army sounded at the same time.

Dozens of herald cavalry carried command flags to the various formations, loudly conveying the latest orders to each formation.

The infantry in the front row removed their shields from the shield carts, and quickly put together an iron wall of men and shields in front of the formation, behind which were the spears of Rulin and the neat ranks of archers. On their two flanks, Cao Shicun and the three brothers Cao Yi and Cao Xiang each led their own cavalry to slowly follow and advance.

With the sound of the trumpet, the huge formation slowly moved forward.

The soldiers of the Grass Army clenched the knives and guns in their hands, their faces turned pale, and their knuckles turned white from excessive exertion in their hands.

The two armies were getting closer and closer, and a terrible silence condensed between heaven and earth.

"He doesn't have to release the arrow, the archer is pulling the string, he doesn't need to raise the bow, he wants to shoot on his back, quickly raise the shield!"

With a burst of sharp shouts, it was already close to the Tang army formation within a hundred steps, and a dense rain of arrows emitted countless whistling sounds, flying out of the sky, covering the sun with clouds, and forming a huge arrow cloud at the end, and the entire battlefield was stagnant.

At this time, many grass soldiers raised the shields they carried, the so-called shields were just a few pieces of wooden boards pieced together, and even many soldiers simply took the wooden pot lids snatched from the people's homes as shields. Although it seems to be extremely simple, the soldiers in the back compartment are almost all on the hand, they have too little armor, and the officers and soldiers are almost every man with a bow, and even equipped with a large number of crossbows, and every time he fights, the bow and arrow always cause the most damage.

As soon as the lid of the pot was raised above his head, the cloud of arrows in the sky that seemed to be stagnant suddenly turned into a rain of thousands of arrows, smashing down towards the array of the rebels.

The sound of rattling arrows continued to sound, and there were bursts of violent vibrations and beeping sounds from the lid of the wooden pot in the hands of the rebels. The lid of the pot without the cowhide is not secure, and after four or five arrows, it will be shaken apart.

The Tang Army's arrow rain was like a torrential rain hitting lotus leaves.

Ge Congzhou looked forward from under a real cowhide shield, and the Tang infantry on the opposite side had already raised their spears and were speeding up. The cavalry also rode out from the two wings of the infantry, formed a goose-wing formation, and then increased its speed in an instant and turned into a charge.

The rain of arrows in the sky was no longer so dense, Ge Congzhou picked up his spear and shouted loudly: "Life and death are only today, brothers rush with me!" ”

The grass army threw away the lid of the nail-headed arrow in their hands one after another, screaming and screaming to give themselves the courage to follow behind Ge Congzhou and rush over, and collided with the cavalry that killed quickly, and the battlefield under Tingting Mountain suddenly became a human refinement.

The Tang infantry was led by a surprise shield, followed by spearmen and regimental swordsmen, and the cavalry quickly outflanked from both flanks.

This is a war without suspense, poorly equipped, under-trained these hastily gathered homeless people, compared with the elite of the Tianping Army who had just defeated the Nanzhao army from Xichuan and returned, not only from equipment to training, but also in terms of quantity.

Although Ge Congzhou was extremely brave, but Rao was so experienced, in front of the Tianping Army's bronze wall and iron shield array and countless spear formations like forests, the grass army could not rush through at all, and the impact again and again was like waves constantly rushing against the reef, in vain and in vain.

At this time, the forward cavalry of Cao Cunshi's three brothers had already outflanked from both flanks. The charge of the cavalry, the huge impact force, quickly contained the charge of the grass army. The three Cao brothers led the cavalry to rush left and right, and the formation of the grass army was soon attacked by them.

Under the slow advance of the infantry of the Tianping Army and the left and right rush of the cavalry, the grass army began to retreat step by step, and soon the entire formation was completely chaotic.

Ge Congzhou and his subordinates were covered in blood, but they still couldn't stop the offensive posture of the officers and soldiers.

Meng Kai carried a spear, rode his horse in front of Ge Congzhou, and shouted: "Brother Tongmei, the Tang army is powerful, this is the main force of the Tianping Army!" The wind is tight, and it is! ”

Ge Congzhou wiped the blood stains on his face that he didn't know which enemy it was, and nodded, "Mingjin retreats!" Remove! ”

A sound of gold sounded, and the soldiers of the grass army who were struggling to support them suddenly burst into joy, and hurriedly turned around and fled without saying a word.

Cao Cunshi, the vanguard of the Tianping Army, saw that the thieves were defeated and fled, and immediately vibrated his guns and shouted: "Don't let the thieves run away, chase them!" (To be continued......)